vwbug, turning off trackbacks and pingbacks only applies the setting to new posts/pages - to turn them off on old posts:

• Go to the list of posts and tick the tickybox in the bar at the top of the list to select all the posts on the page.
• Look for "Edit" in the "Bulk Actions" dropdown, and click "Apply".
• Look for "Pings: Allow/Do Not Allow."

You'll have to do this once per page of posts, but it sure beats going into each one by hand.

Also, pingbacks suck.

Wordpress/Blogger question:

For some reason, if you add my Wordpress link to a blogroll on Blogger, it shows that my last post was 10 months ago. I don't think that was the last post I imported in my initial switchover, so I can't figure out why it's not updating.

I initially thought it might be a caching issue on the other person's site, but I just added the link to my old blog at Blogger and it's doing the same thing.

Ideas?

amych, thank you!!! I knew I was missing something. And yes, they are completely annoying!

So, anyone here ever worked with the Javascript plugin jQuery?

Because I may have questions.

So, anyone here ever worked with the Javascript plugin jQuery?

I've worked with it a fair bit, although I'm hardly ninja-grade. What up?

Well, I just solved my most recent problem with the jQuery autocomplete function.

I don't suppose you know how to hide the iPhone keyboard in Safari when a textbox has the focus? I mean, without disabling the text box or shifting the focus off it. (I'm using the jQuery autocomplete on the text box, so I don't need the keyboard.)

eta: My boss hates the iPhone Safari scroll thing you get for a web dropdown box.

Sorry, can't help much on that one - showing/hiding the keyboard is more in the land of iOS stuff than jQ, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a trigger for it that isn't giving/removing focus. (There are a couple of suggestions along those lines here, using blur events or dummy elements: [link] Out of curiousity, what's the use case for not shifting focus while never typing in it?

btw, are you using jQuery Mobile, or just jQuery? They're different beasties; you might want to keep your searches to jQ Mobile since you're looking specifically for iOS events.

(edit: xpost on the use case. Sigh, bosses.)

Have you seen Chosen? It's a jQ plugin that de-uglifies long ugly dropdown type things quite nicely. Disclaimer is that I have no idea what it does on mobile.

btw, are you using jQuery Mobile

No, because I did not know there was such a thing.

Thanks, gonna check it out....

Yeah, jQM is nice for handling a lot of mobile native interface stuff, and it works cross-platform, too.

I just checked the Chosen site on iPhone, and it looks a hell of a lot better than the native controls. You might just want to show him that and see what he thinks. But the basic problem is that he's trying to force UI elements to do something different than what they should really do -- a textbox is FOR ENTERING TEXT, not selecting from a pre-set list, dangit!!

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